“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
Source: House of Leaves
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“…it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”
Franz Kafka book The Trial
'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9
Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 264.
“It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.”
Halldór Laxness book Kristnihald undir Jökli (bók)
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
“When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted.”
Dave Eggers book The Circle
Eamon Bailey, to Mae; pp. 372-372
The Circle (2013)
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Variant: Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.18